WSJ STORIES YOU SHOULDN’T MISSDEMOCRATS BACK OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY: The energy boom is shaping a new kind of Democrat in national politics: lawmakers who are giving greater support to the oil and gas industry even at the risk of alienating environmental groups, a core of the party’s base. The trend comes as oil-and-gas production moves beyond America’s traditionally energy-rich states, a development that also is increasing U.S. geopolitical influence abroad. Amy Harder reports.

NSA’S DATA “OVERCOLLECTION”:One of the NSA’s key surveillance programs was plagued by years of “systemic overcollection” of private Internet communications, a 117-page decision by Judge John Bates of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court says. Newly declassified documents suggest the now-defunct program struggled to collect metadata, such as the “to” and “from” information of an email, without also scooping up information it wasn’t legally allowed to gather. Devlin Barrett reports.

HILLARY CLINTON ON FOREIGN POLICY: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton walks a political tightrope as she fleshes out her foreign-policy views in advance of a likely 2016 presidential campaign, putting distance between herself and President Obama without personally criticizing her former boss. Janet Hook reports.

JANET HOOK (VIDEO): OBAMA’S CATCH 22 IN IRAQ
President Obama has been criticized from the right, left and center for his decision to authorize airstrikes against Islamic militants in northern Iraq. The latest critic is former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has been trying to put distance between herself and the Obama administration. WSJ’s Janet Hook says the criticism is sure to follow the president no matter what decision he makes in Iraq.

HERE’S A LOOK AT THE DAY AHEAD
–ECONOMIC INDICATOR: The Labor Department releases job openings and labor turnover for June at 10 a.m. EDT.

–DEFENSE TIES: Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel are in Sydney for the Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations. The U.S. and Australia have agreed to push for a United Nations resolution restricting the movement of foreign militants who have fought in the Middle East.

WHAT WE’RE READING AROUND THE WEBIsrael is prepared to ease conditions in the Gaza Strip during any cease-fire negotiated with Hamas, but officials aren’t optimistic a broader truce will take hold, reports Haaretz: “At this point Israel is preparing for the 72-hour cease-fire to expire on Wednesday night and that without an agreement firing from the Gaza Strip will begin again.”

Secretary of State John Kerry’s “frantic diplomacy”has produced little substantive achievement, as illustrated by mounting international crises, writes Peter Van Buren for Reuters: “Kerry seems to confuse effort for outcome; the State Department obsessively tracks his travel time as if it was billable hours.”

In a grim footnote to the upheaval in Iraq, Rania Abouzeidof The New Yorker recounts the arrival of 28 bodies of prostitutes at a Baghdad morgue after the women were shot by Islamic militiamen. The killing illustrates how “some Shiite militias have targeted those who live on the social margins and who participate in activities that they deem un-Islamic.”

In the WSJ’s Think Tank, Michael Singh writesthat President Obama’s choice of distinctly limited airstrikes in Iraq represents a compromise approach to the problems there but that “advancing U.S. interests will require a more robust, proactive strategy, steps such as aid for Syrian rebels and the Kurdish peshmerga and a broader effort to cripple the Islamic State behind which the U.S. can rally regional and international support.”

TWEETS OF THE DAY@BarackObama: ”Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny … and everything in between. But he was one of a kind.” —President Obama

@PentagonPresSec:I once asked Robin Williams to offer advice for my son, who would soon turn 18. “Follow your heart,” he said. “The head is sometimes wrong.”

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